Sara Driver

Explore Sara Driver's movie filmography on ReelBot, including film credits, roles, release dates, ratings, and movie details.

Directing

Sara Miller Driver is an American independent filmmaker and actress. A participant in the independent film scene that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s through the 1990s, she gained initial recognition as producer of two early films by Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation (1980) and Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Driver has directed two feature films, Sleepwalk (1986) and When Pigs Fly (1993), as well as a notable short film, You Are Not I (1981), and a documentary, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017), on the young artist's pre-fame life in the burgeoning downtown New York arts scene before the city's massive changes through the 1980s. She served on the juries of various film festivals throughout the 2000s.

Filmography

• Adios (2025)
• Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver (2021)
• The Dead Don't Die (2019)
• Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018)
• Uncle Howard (2017)
• Paterson (2016)
• Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
• Blank City (2011)
• Gold Eye Ball (2008)
• Broken Flowers (2005)
• Some Days in January, 1984 (2001)
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
• Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (1994)
• The Bowery (1994)
• When Pigs Fly (1993)
• Strummer (1993)
• Figaro Story (1993)
• Keep It for Yourself (1991)
• Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
• Mystery Train (1989)
• Sleepwalk (1986)
• Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
• You Are Not I (1981)
• Permanent Vacation (1981)
• An Odd Enchantment
• Garden of Ashes